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UCL Institute of Education and Numberfit win New Partnerships Award

13 June 2019

A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between academics from the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and the social enterprise Numberfit has received an accolade at the UCL Awards for Innovation and Enterprise.

IOE academics win New Partnership Award

The UCL Innovation and Enterprise Awards recognise the successes of staff, students and alumni who engage in innovation and enterprise activities, with the New Partnerships Award recognising collaborations between UCL and any new business, public or charity sector partner.

Dr Manolis Mavrikis (UCL Knowledge Lab, IOE) and Dr Maria Kambouri (Psychology and Human Development, IOE) have partnered with Numberfit to help the social enterprise develop new numeracy products that raise engagement and attainment in mathematics.

Numberfit has a decade of experience in teaching maths to Early Years and Primary learners through physically active lesson plans that turn maths into a team sport. The company’s founder, Gavin Mair, embarked on this Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the IOE to support the development of new products that will help the company scale nationally and internationally. 

The KTP supports two Master's students at the IOE to evaluate one of Numberfit’s new products: an interschool maths league in which student teams compete against other schools via a webcam link.

In addition, the KTP has facilitated the development of an app to register classroom observations, through a collaboration with UCL’s Computer Science Department.

With the support of this partnership with the IOE, Numberfit is now in a position to scale up and roll out more innovative numeracy products that engage young children in maths.

The partnership team

  • Manolis Mavrikis, Reader, UCL Knowledge Lab, Department of Culture, Communication and Media, IOE
  • Dr Maria Kambouri, Department Graduate Tutor, Department of Psychology and Human Development department, IOE
  • Dr Estibaliz Fraca Santamaria, KTP Associate, IOE and Numberfit
  • Gavin Mair, Director, Numberfit
  • Ashley Highmore, New Business Development Manager, Numberfit

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